Visiting International Researchers

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Adekemi (Kemi) Adesokan

Kemi visited our lab in 2007 to collaborate on a joint project with Rolf van Dick (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) where she completed her master’s degree prior to pursuing doctoral studies at Oxford University (UK). Together, we examined how diversity beliefs moderate associations between intergroup contact and prejudice. After completing the PhD, Kemi accepted a faculty position at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, after which she pursued more policy- and analysis-oriented work at the Scottish Funding Council. Kemi now works as an analyst at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland.

Lusine (Lucy) Grigoryan

Lucy completed her PhD in Social Psychology at Bremen University (Germany), after which she received a multi-year postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation to support her ongoing program of research on identity and prejudice in everyday interactions. As part of her postdoctoral fellowship, Lucy visited our lab in 2022 to facilitate collaboration on an experience-sampling study of salient social identities in the context of daily intergroup contact experiences. Lucy is now a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Psychology at the University of York.

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Jeanine Grutter

Jeanine visited our research lab in 2015, during her doctoral studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and with support from a Swiss National Foundation Research Scholarship. We incorporated developmental and social psychological perspectives to examine how varying definitions of friendship (e.g., shared activities, mutual trust) predict attitudes towards immigrant students among non-immigrant Swiss children. After completing the PhD, Jeanine accepted a faculty position at the University of Konstanz (Germany), where she is now an Associate Professor.

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Judit Kende

As part of her PhD studies in social and cultural at the University of Leuven (Belgium), Judit visited our lab in 2017 to collaborate on projects related to understanding how societal inequality shapes intergroup relations. Over the years, we have worked together on projects related to the interplay of positive and negative contact among ethnic minority groups, and how integration policies shape ethnic majority responses to increasing diversity. Following postdoctoral positions at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Judit is now an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University (Netherlands).

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Meta van der Linden

Meta visited our lab in 2016, during her doctoral studies at KU Leuven (Belgium) and with support from the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO). With joint training through KU Leuven’s Center for Political Research and its Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, Meta contributed to a multi-disciplinary project concerning how intergroup contact shapes attitudes toward immigrant newcomers among the U.S.-born. After completing the PhD, Meta worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the EUR Bridge project at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), which examined the structural and socio-cultural integration of recently arrived refugees. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University (Netherlands), as well as a member of the European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER).